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Roberts in India

the military papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893

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An edition of Roberts in India (1993)

Roberts in India

the military papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893

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The history of the British Army in the last quarter of the nineteenth century is dominated by two soldiers, Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts. Almost exact contemporaries, they pursued parallel but separate careers for forty years, Wolseley in the British and Roberts, although a British Army officer, in the Indian Army. Roberts sprang to instant fame in the Second Afghan War when his daring march from Kabul to Kandahar in August 1880 made him a public hero.

Thereafter he was the acknowledged rival and successor to Wolseley, from whom he differed on a wide range of issues, including the vexed question of short-service. As Commander-in-Chief Madras and Commander-in-Chief India for the unprecedented period of eight years, Roberts presided over the massive reform and strengthening of the Army in India.

He was largely successful in engineering a major re-orientation of British strategic thinking, making India the primary theatre of operations in what he saw as the inevitable war with Russia.

Roberts was an energetic and articulate writer and his surviving papers, hitherto unpublished, cover an extraordinary range of subjects. The papers in this volume have been selected, not merely to illustrate Roberts' career in India and the complex interreaction between Indian and British policy, but to provide a fresh and unexpected portrait of late-Victorian military life. They show Roberts as a pioneer in humanising the soldier's life and, at the same time, as a complex and devious personality.

They provide an essential source for further studies of the period.

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Roberts in India: the military papers of Field Marshall Lord Roberts, 1876-1893
1993, Published by Alan Sutton for the Army Records Society
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Roberts in India: the military papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893
1993, Published by Alan Sutton for the Army Records Society
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-463) and index.

Published in
Dover, NH
Series
Publications of the Army Records Society ;, vol. 9
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
958.1/03
Library of Congress
DS364.6 .R63 1993, DS364.6.R63 1993

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xxviii, 478 p. :
Number of pages
478

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Open Library
OL1416820M
ISBN 10
0750904011
LCCN
93026403
OCLC/WorldCat
28421626
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592327

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